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VOTE OBAMA! There are some things that we were supposed to learn in Kindergarten. One important thing-that I have noticed recently-is the idea that you are not supposed to talk to strangers. No matter who you are-you must be aware about WHO YOU ARE TALKING TO! Time for Sarah Palin to go home and teach herself and family some very basic rules and values! Trust her? Sarah Palin Talks to Strangers! Next time-she opens the door to a stranger? Next time-what does she do? Sarah Palin doesn't love life-she plays at life. Shooting animals from airplanes, Pro-Win Which War? Pro-Life is Pro-Choice! Men, women and children being killed? All life is valuable-and I , do not trust my life in your hands or John McCain's hands! You were once very Mavericky! Now, you are redundant, erratic and icky-and what is this with Joe the Plumber-Can you imagine Cindy allowing him in the front door? Does he speak to him? Is she every in his airspace? John, go back to the ranch, the Senate, the river or the mountain-just go away! VOTE OBAMA!
posted by Susan at 2:35 PM

 
John McCain still won't come clean with one of HIS BIG SECRETS!!!
The Keating Five
"The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of $2 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment". Online-get more info!

All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they both succeeded. McCain would go on to become the Republican nominee for president in 2008.
Receiving gifts, using corporate jets, taking funds from corrupt pals in Finance-and exercising one of his infamous moments of POOR JUDGEMENT!!! Plus, didn't Cindy McCain buy stock in Savings and Loan??? John McCain is OLD Washington, DC and a crafty Arizona Senator. John McCain used his position within his wife's company to further his career in politics, by meeting and greeting all the people he would talk with about his wife's great BEER Company. John McCain is not truthful.
Now, I also would love to know HOW Sarah Palin gets her NEWS?? If she can go out and talk about something that happened in the 1960s (and I don't even think she was born ...yet...) then how does she know so much about who was a radical and who supported or did not support the Vietnam War? And, if she really doesn't KNOW Joe Biden and if she doesn't know Barack Obama (I am sure she DOESN'T PAL AROUND WITH HIM)....then how does she know who are his friends. Forty years ago Ayers was a rebel for the Weather Underground, now a Professor and Civic Leader. He was on a committee with him, his kids go to school with his kids. Does Palin or McPain talk about Sara's DH and how he is sooooo........involved in Alaskan Politics and how he was a member, and may still be a member of a group that wanted Alaska to secede from the Nation??? Why don't we let Sara talk about that and TROOPERGATE??
I know we all have been on committee's with people and they were not our buddies and that I have had kids go to school with my kids and I hardly knew the parents. When was the last time that your child was not placed in the IN group with your supposed acquaintances and you found a BETTER group for him or her? Does happen? My new friends may not be my OLD acquaintances and my new friends are my new acquaintances?? Lots of things happen that are tangled my strangers/acquaintances, trusted and untrusted friends.
Keep your Friends close and your enemies closer..and believe in yourself!
Now, take a good look at people who are telling Tales, with a wink and a nod and repetition, cause someone had to COACH Sarah Palin of Wasilly-how else could she ever know about anything?? She couldn't name ONE newspaper that she read, ONE magazine...She Reads ALL of them...She reads none. She knows nothing!
There is someone tutoring her? Sarah is being home schooled, only thing is she should be at home with her kids! And, as I have said before...my Mom would say that that baby needs a schedule-and should be in his own crib at night-not being yanked down the steps of an airplane-in his Mom's arms while she is wearing HIGH heels and not holding the handrail-that's almost as bad as Michael Jackson holding his child over the balcony!!!!

posted by Susan at 9:38 PM

 
What is going on?
I thought that people read their local newspaper? Even if it's the local/local gossipy, coupon, what's for sale stuff...you read it!
You read it for: coupons, new places, new faces, old faces, what politicians are doing, who is fundraising for a cause? What the hours of the local church services are? And, how's your pastor? Where the women meet for the Garden Club? Is there going to be a Christmas Crafts Sale/Fundraiser? Can I join? Who plays tennis?
I know people read this stuff. They find out the best places - for the best buys!
And, some people have the local paper delivered-or pick it up at the supermarket.
I love my local papers. I also love the New York Times, for the Home, Styles, Food and Fashions and also for the NEWS, WORLD AND LOCAL POLITICS AND INTERESTING STUFF WRITTEN BY INTERESTING PEOPLE. My FAV is the .The New York Post, Page Six, Liz Smith or Cindy Adams. I adore the sightings, who is wearing what, speaking out on what and also every picture you'd need of any singer, actor or pseudo celeb at whatever Grammy, Oscar or Music Party!
How come Sarah Palin could not come up with any newspapers, magazines, books or anything that she reads? She has to read!! Even if we are huddled reading a scary mystery-scary for me is Mary Higgins Clark or anything scary! Or, a Romance Novel-any romantic novel with the woman's breasts heaving and the hunky handsome man coming to her rescue. I know women read these! Well, why doesn't she read? How can she NOT read and BAN BOOKS?
Why does she condemn people for travelling out of the country-and make them seem like elitists. I met a young man and a woman on a Christian Mission to cities in Europe. They made rosary chains from fibers and knots. They were Midwest teens with an eye to the future-and teaching. I have met teens travelling with back packs to many countries-using Euro Rail passes and staying in hostels! How about kids who stay with local families and their counterpart is in America with a local family? You know, Sarah Palin IS limited! She's snarky and shrewish and nasty! Cindy McCain laughs in the background (at or with Sarah) as she mentions Joe Biden and how she was in 2nd grade listening to his speeches! I guess she didn't listen hard enough-and maybe she dismissed John McCain-because he was OLD and wasn't sweetsie enough-he's a maniac on the edge. Remember the Godfather?? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!" John McCain, we know you are a war hero! We think you served your country well. You served your country-and suffered. But, you also came home to a sick wife and family-and just lifted (sexy & rich) Cindi off her feet-and courted her-while you wre still married to wife #1. Did it help that Cindi had the money to hire you as a spokesperson for the BEER company her father owned? Of course, you, yourself say you met a lot of people-and that's how your political career started! I saw that you are selling your BIG house for skeighty eight jillion dollars-which is just pocket money-now that we talk of TRILLIONS for a Bailout, a Rescue Plan-and a Wall Street Spa Party-but, did you hear that you have to spend: one hundred thousand dollars to just get a "LOOK SEE" inside the house? I guess you're looking for BIG money-any Arab Sheik-a Russian Trillionaire, a Movie Mogul, Angelinia Jolie, Brad Pitt and the kids??? What's up? Isn't John a little bit embarrassed-and why do it now??? To show HOW VERY RICH REPUBLICANS ARE! WHY? INVESTMENTS, OIL, MONEY? LAND, ACREAGE, GIFTS, LOBBYING, LOBBYERS, DICK HALLIBURTON CHENEY?, KARL ROVE (DISTRUSTFUL WAR MONGERS??)? I don't have the answer-but, why doesn't anyone want to listen To our wonderful President George Bush? Not even the Republicans want to listen to him! Do you think the Conservative Republican Christian Right will tune in and ADORE Sarah? Her wit, her hair or smile...? If she only had a brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George Bush did not have a brain at the Press Club party-when he lurked and searched behind every chair and table for WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EMBARRASSED-MAKING FUN OF THE VERY THING THAT PUT OUR SOLDIERS IN HARMS WAY-AND SENT THEM OFF TO IRAQ-all to search for weapons that never existed! The voter has to be smarter now.
posted by Susan at 3:57 PM

 
Here we are The Night of the DEBATE! I really don't care if OBAMA stands still and doesn't open his mouth (though I doubt that would happen!) Just let John McCain jump around with his rhetoric. McCain is a LIAR! I am so angry that that man chose an IDIOT for a Vice Presidential choice! She knows nothing. How could he possibly subject the Nation to an IDIOT who believes that "Putin rears his head and decides to fly over the air space of Alaska" and that's her International knowledge!!! Gee-she is simple! Maybe she knows how to capitalize on the birth of her newest son, Down's Syndrome Special Needs Baby, who, as my Mom would say: "SHOULD BE IN A ROUTINE, BE IN HIS BED SLEEPING, NOT HANDED AROUND" True, she would have said that of any baby. That baby should be loved and caressed, held close to your heart and given some love and care as a newborn baby. Not in the Republican Spotlight, dragged around, picked up from sleeping and placed in the lights and cameras of Political Life! John McCain likes to talk in circles! Wedging himself into the Washington SCENE ON ECONOMICS SO HE COULD STROLL AROUND PATTING HIS BUDDIES BACKS McCain PATS Lieberman's back (POOR HADASSAH), does he really believe in McCain???
Dopes, Cindy McCain with her designer duds, really believe in the policies of her husband? I do not think so. In Fact, I think Cindy disagrees-and is happy the spotlight is now on Sarah Painlin and not her! And, remember -children, adults, psychotics, masses, CANADA and RUSSIA are out the window of Sarah Palin, the state who she is the executive of. Nice sentence.
Please vote for OBAMA! You all want CHOICE! You want to listen to FERGIE or Madonna, Or Frank Sinatra, or Chopin, Mozart, Dolly Parton, Beatles, western, northern and eastern southern music. You do have a choice! Wear yor hair short, long, in curls or curlers, wear shorts, long pants, jeans, polyester! We all have choices and make them. Now, CHOOSE OBAMA, McCain WILL DICATE LIKE BUSH!
And, afterall, Sarah like Bush's stand on terrorism...I thought Bush and McCain are different. WE should strengthen our nation, our airports and harbors, strengthen the vehicles and armor our soldiers wear...build better brisges, better school and save our homes! Do you think McCain cares about that? He has 7 or 8 homes or how many cars.....13??? Is that like you?
posted by Susan at 2:19 PM

 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26853766/
First she says NO....then she says YES! Wow! Just a communication failure? The Lady from WaSilly is about to set forth into the International World, riding in on a Moose-toting a Show Gun and what does she do?? Just change her mind. Does she want to says NO OR YES!? Just ask a Campaign Manager or a Lawyer for the John McCain Campaign and they might be able to give you an answer!
Sarah (The Mother of the Republican Party)Palin bars, then admits reporters to meetings
Campaign spokeswoman says it was all just a 'miscommunication'



updated 5 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, initially barred reporters from her first meetings with world leaders Tuesday, but reversed course after they protested.

At first, campaign aides told the TV producer, print and news agency reporters in the press pool that followed the Alaska governor that they would not be admitted along with still photographers and a video camera crew taken in to photograph her meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who are here for the United Nations General Assembly this week. She also was to meet later with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

WEll, if she has to make up her mind on anything else-I hope it's whether she will wear one of Cindy McCain's designer jackets to the conference-or whther someone will run to Bergdorf's or Walmart??? Sarah Dear Painlin will make her mark in the BIG CITY! Watch out New York-here comes Sarah----make sure she has a map and driver-and maybe-just maybe, put her on a train...Will she ever return? No she'll never return and her fate is still unknown---poor old Sarah, she may ride forver thru the streets of New York-she's a woman who may never return!
posted by Susan at 12:58 PM

 
SUPPORT OBAMA IF YOU WANT A FUTURE FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN. CHANGE & CHOICE! EIGHT YEARS OF HIDEOUS WHITE REPUBLICAN MONEY GRUBBING, SNEERING MEN (as if...CHENEY, ROVE & BUSH!). They have been MAKING RIDICULOUS CHOICES AND THIS ECONOMY HAS COLLAPSED. READ AN OLD COOKBOOK PRODUCED DURING THE DEPRESSION OR WORLD WAR TWO AND YOU WILL SEE THAT WE ARE IN A DEPRESSION. CHOOSING FOODS THAT STRETCH THE BUDGET-LESS BEEF, CHICKEN OR PORK-MIXZING IT WITH POTATOES OR RICE (OOPS-THAT WAS A SHORTAGE TOO!!) WE ARE THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO SEND HUGE AMOUNTS OF OUR MONEY TO IRAQ-BUNDLES OF IT ON CARRIER PLANES -THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT HAS GONE (THANK YOU BREMER)---INTO THEIR GOVERMENT MEN'S POCKETS. AND, PAYING BILLIONS FOR A WAR TO NOWHERE, WHILE IRAQ MAKES AN OIL RICH AGREEEMENT WITH CHINA! AND OUR GAS PRICES ESCALATE! THEY ARE OIL RICH BECAUSE OF US-AND WE PAY FOR THEIR REBUILDING AND THE WAR-AND WHAT DO WE HAVE?? WE HAVE BROKEN FAMILIES-SOLDIERS PLACED IN HARMS WAY-INJURED, DEAD, MAIMED, ALL THE STORIES THAT MAKE WAR BAD...AND WE HAVE TO BE PERKY?? WHO CAN BE PERKY WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR HOME TO FORECLOSURE AND FANNIE AND FREDDIE GET TAKEN OVER BY THE GOVERNEMENT-AND THEIR EXECUTIVES WALK OUT WITH MILLIONS IN BONUSES. FANNNIE AND FREDDIE NEVER PAID TAXES-THEY ARE A GOVERNMENT INSTITUION AND ALSO THEY WERE NEVER OVERSEEN AS TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING??? A GIVERNMENT AGENCY-LENDING MONEY WITH NO OVRERSIGHT!! HOW CAN THE REGULAR AMERICAN DO THAT AND GET AWAY WITH IT??? THE GOVERMENT SHOULD GO TO JAIL? AND WHAT KIND OF REHAB WOULD THEY GET? AMY WINEHOUSE BREAKS THE LAW, NEEDS TO BE BAKER ACTED AND PUT INTO PROTECTIVE CUSTODY FOR HER OWN SELF GOOD AND HER "BOYFRIEND" BECOMES A SENSATIOON AND MARTYR FOR WHAT? DRUGS? TIRED OF IT ALL. REAL PEOPLE, WORKING HARD, NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE! AND HAVE A CHOICE!! FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE, FOOD, WATER, HOMES, HEALTH CARE, INSURANCE, EQUAL PAY, BETTER PAY AND SOME SECURITY FOR THE FUTURE-YOU WILL HAVE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND THE ADS THAT SHOWUS HAVING 60 YEARS WORTH OF UNTAPPED OIL-IS NOT VERY LONG. BABY BOOMERS-IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE YOU'RE THERE-AND THOSE OVER-YOUR MINDS ARE 17, BUT YOU ARE THE OLDER SET-AS EACH GENERATION MOVES UP A ROW. VOTE FOR OBAMA! VOTE FOR CHANGE! VOTE FOR CHOICE!! YOU ALWAYS WANT YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THIS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS TO HAVE A CHOICE-PRO-CHOICE. I WILL NOT PUSH MY OPINION ON SOMEONE ELSE TO THE POINT THAT IT RESTRICTS THEM FROM ANYTHING. LET ANYOPNE HAVE HANDS LAID ON THEM-CONJURING UP WITCHCRAFT-THAT'S UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL-LIKE SARAH PALIN! NEXT THING WE'LL HAVE PRO-MEAT, PRO-NEWSPAPER, PRO-CHOCOLATE PUDDING-AND NO ONE CAN HAVE VANILLA. WE ALWAYS NEED CHOICE! YOU KNOW YOU DO IT EVERY DAY IN YOUR LIFE-AND THE CHOICE FOR A WOMAN TO HAVE CONTROL OF HER BODY IS "HER" CHOICE!!! NOT SOME OLD MAN-OR SOME FANATICAL WOMAN-AND ANYWAY-WHY DO ALL THESES RIGHT WING MEN GET INTO OUR LIVES?? IF THEY BECAME PREGNANT AFTER "CHEATING" EXPERIMENTING" "RAPE" INCEST" OR WHATEVER...AND THEY GOT PREGNANT-YOU BET THEY WOULD ABORT THAT FETUS. I WILL NOT TELL ANYONE WHAT TO DO-BUT I WILL ALWAYS WANT TO THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE! OBAMA CHANGE & CHOICE! WOULD YOU ROLL OUT YOUR DAUGHTER INTO THE ARENA OF PUBLIC LIFE AND STRESS IF SHE WERE PREGNANT-UNMARRIED-AND THEN FORCE HER TO ENGAGE THE BOY SHE HAD SEX WITH AND PRODUCE OR DECLARE THAT THERE MUST BE A SHOTGUN MARRIAGE. SHE IS 17-HAS NOT FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL-HAS THE FUTURE BEFORE HER-AND NOW HER "MOMMY" CHOOSES LIFE-OKAY-AND PALIN ALSO CHOOSES LIFE IF SOMEONE IS RAPED, INCEST-GREAT IDEA FOR YOU CHILD TO GO THRU!!! YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR BABY-OR FIND A family to adopt??That's up to you-just don't tell me what to do,
I think that the whole deal to the Lipstick Brigade of the Foul Mouthed McCain Crowd is for Sarah Dear to become a spokesperson for Chanel, Dior, Bobby Brown, Maybeline, Clinique, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Sassy Lips, Fat Red Lips or some other make-up, cosmetics company. Doesn't she look like our Republican debutante who stopped the recount in Florida - Kathryn Harris??? WITCH! And, that since McCain referred to the Bubbly Bop of the Over Teen Blondes Britney Spears (who I hope will stay well) and my pal Paris Hilton (the money is no object girl(but her video was great) who reminds me of Betty Boop and maybe she can run for President.
SARAH DEAR PALIN CATEGORIZES HERSELF BY SAYING THE DIFFREENCE BETWEEN A PITBULL AND SOCCER MOM IS LIPSTICK. PIT BULLS ARE FINE-BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THEM IN LIPSTICK: CHANEL RED OR GREEN? WHAT COMES TO MIND IS THE MOVIE "MARS ATTACKS" WHEN Sarah JESSICA PARKER IS CARRYING HER SMALL DOG AND THE VISITORS FROM SOME PLANET ( GOOEY ALIENS) COMBINE HER HEAD ON THE DOGS BODY. MYTHICAL TO SOME-ADORABLE TO OTHER-AND I THINK OF PAILIN'S HEAD ON A PIT BULL WITH LIPSTICK! NOT EINSTEIN! JUST UNINTELLIGENT-LIMITED SARAH-THE BEAUTY QUEEN BROUGHT UP WITH NO BRAINS SO THAT NO ONE WILL LISTEN OR LOOK AT JOHN MCCAIN-CAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY-HE'S JUST A BUSH IN DISQUISE. WILL SARAH PALIN SHOOT A PLAYBOY LAYOUT LIKE PAM ANDERSON DANCING AND STRIPPING ON ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW-WELL, SHE CAN IF SHE WANTS-IT'S NOT UP TO ME-ABOUT HER CHOICES! BUT, I WOULD NEVER PUT HER IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR NEAR IT! ALASKA NEEDS HER! SHE NEEDS TO PROMOTE DRILLING OF ALSAKA-HELPING HER HUSBAND KEEP HIS JOB-BUILDING BRIDGES TO NOWHERE-AND REJOICING WITH HER FAMILY-MOTHER'S LOVE. SHE HAS MUCH TO HANDLE! BUT, SHE CAN COVER ALL OF THIS UP WITH HER BELIEFS-OR FACE IT-LIKE SOME OTHER POEPLE WHO HAVE THE SAME OR OTHER BEEIFS-BUT THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS WAR! GOD HAS NOT GIVEN ANY INSTRUCTIONS TO WAGE WAR! LET US PRAY FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN WHO ARE IN IRAQ AND AROUND THE WORLD-Pray FOR THEM TO COME HOME. PRAY IN YOUR OWN WAY-YOUR CHOICE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS! PRAY FOR CHANGE! PRAY FOR CHOICE!OBAMA!
posted by Susan at 1:08 PM

 
FALLUJAH PREPS FOR INTERNET SERVICE
Clean water, Internet coming to war-torn Fallujah by fall

By Antonio Castaneda
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Clean water should flow to 80 percent of Fallujah's homes this fall, and by summer's end a planned wireless network will provide phone service and Internet access to thousands, a technological leap unimaginable just months ago.
But mounds of rubble litter the city, electricity is available only four hours a day, and an estimated 50,000 people out of a population of about 300,000 still have not returned 18 months after Fallujah was destroyed in an American assault to wrest control from insurgents."
I'm not sure a primary goal of rebuilding Fallujah is Internet Service. How are the schools, food, shelter, aide to the sick and injured? So, who is rebuilding the infrastructure-and winning the TECH war? Who is making the money?
posted by Susan at 3:38 PM

 
Fierce Fighting in Fallujah and what now? I guess, just PRAY that our men & women in the Armed Forces are safe & strong. They are our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, they are our family! God Speed!
posted by Susan at 1:42 AM

 
10,000 Troops in Fallujah and I pray that they are safe-but, I do know better! A year and a half after the fact-and we are now surrounding Fallujah-playing war games at a base-to figure out how to battle and insurgency! We just don't know and haven't studied the method-of how to WIN over the people of Iraq.Visit NPR.ORG to find out how we are studying to fight a battle that is on the current horizon! You can listen and learn-how our commanders are adjusting to a "new style" of warfare!
Friday, November 5, 2004
"After the fall of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. was reluctant to accept the threat of insurgents. Now, as troops in Iraq face a full-fledged insurgency, commanders are adjusting their tactics, and the Army has a new manual on counter-insurgency warfare."


posted by Susan at 1:08 AM

 
FINAL PHASE IN FALLUJAH?? has been in the NEWS constantly. As first obsessed upon here in April 2003. Fallujah has been a problem from the very beginning of our liberation! Why? Why was this city shoved aside-and allowed to become the strong hold of insurgents (?). How come the people of this city were not protected? If I knew that this was a problem-how come the Commanders of this Army didn't know? Why didn't Bush know? He said he is surrounded by such smart people and reiterated this-but what smart person, with knowledge didn't know about Fallujah?? Or, did they and this is just another reason to pit "us" against "them" scenario?
posted by Susan at 10:52 AM

 
WAS BUSH WIRED?
I would not doubt it!
It's time for a change!
Vote for Kerry!

posted by Susan at 7:11 PM

 
POPE VISITS SHRINE LINKED TO MIRACULOUS CURES and THEY (The Pope, George Bush, Republican Conservatism and Religious Conservatism Laura Bush etc.) don't believe in stem cell research? But, they believe in a shrine, linked to miraculous cures? Well, if you believe in miraculous cures and healing-it';s time to take a scientific step forward!! Christianity, Judaism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Wicha, Folk Lore, Herbal Medicine??? SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY! And, no politics-just a future with less pain and suffering. Real Cures for illnesses: Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Parkinson!!!
posted by Susan at 7:54 PM

 
SLIMFAST has decided to revamp and update their website and how can you email them?  How can you voice your opinion or find out how to mail their product back to them?  Well, you can look on the back of the box and get the address.
Supporting Whoopi Goldberg and the Right to Free Speech is supporting Democracy!  It's the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States.  WHOOPI GOLDBERG SPEAKS OUT ABOUT SLIMFAST and the fact that they no longer have her representing the company! UNILEVER another LARGE Corporation who produces SLIMFAST and just happens to be based in West Palm Beach, FLORIDA, does not support a citizen who has the right to free speech, especially when it is our right to disagree or agree with politicians who are making decisions in this country-and have an interest in other countries!    Take a look at the homepage for UNILEVER and see what BRANDS this company produces!! It's a start-Lipton Tea, Dove Soap and many more-tjhat we can all STOP buying! We do have the Right to Choose!
It's an ELECTION YEAR-let's make sure that our vote counts!
And, I DO support all of our troops wherever they are-and wish they were all home!



posted by Susan at 6:07 PM

 
US Strike in Fallujah - Sixteen Killed and we are still trying to figure out what to do with Fallujah! Not a move since April-when troops backed out of the city. Is there any way to make a graceful and much needed exit from Iraq? I guess it will be when we TURN OVER the country to the reigning Ministers in Iraq. But, the question is-who would ever want to be in this group of people, when they are assassinated daily?


posted by Susan at 12:59 AM

 
Never liked her-still don't! SPOILED JET SETTER! TROPHY WIFE!
May 12, 2004 -- JUST call her Queen Kimora. Kimora Lee Simmons, wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, was due to leave for London last Thursday at 9 a.m. with several dozen employees and servants for a weekend sponsored by Perrier Jouet champagne promoting her jewelry line. The minions arrived on time at a New Jersey airport where the Boeing 737 was gassed and ready for takeoff. Then they waited for Kimora, and waited - until 6 p.m. "She never called and never apologized," said one lackey. Her retinue later learned she was en route from L.A. where she's making a movie. "All was forgiven once the champagne started flowing freely on the plane." Russell defended his wife, saying the hard-working mother of two flew 19 hours straight to meet with Prince Charles and raise money for his charity. "The plane was supposed to leave at noon. Whoever showed up before that is an idiot."
posted by Susan at 11:58 AM

 
More American Deaths in The Sunni Triangle which includes the flashpoint of Fallujah. More American and Iraqi deaths all over Iraq!!! How many more troops must be maimed and killed? When will it finally come to an end? Do we have to stand by as Bush tells us that he has a plan? Look, I understand why everyone likes Bush-he's ever mans man, but he is sending our loved ones to War-and there's no plan. The problem-the violence and the deaths that are happening in Fallujah right now-are part of the plan that never was. To understand all of this-the basic problem is that the people of Iraq are not willing, nor do they want a Christian American Missionary to march in and dictate a new religion and philosophy of Democracy. They believe in something completely different that we do. And, a terrorist who believes he will be in a better place as a dead martyr has no chance to live-because a violent death for Islam is a better choice for him or her.
posted by Susan at 3:31 PM

 
PRO- CHOICE-WOMEN STAND UP TOGETHER! IT'S YOUR BODY & YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE! It may feel like it's an overwhelming decision or choice about what to do if you become pregnant-but it is still YOUR CHOICE! Don't let someone else tell you how to determine what is right for you! YOU HAVE A CHOICE! And, that's just the way it should be. If you have an unexpected, unplanned pregnancy and you choose to have a child, keep that child or put that child up for adoption - that's your right. It's your body! And, it's your body if you choose to abort an unwanted pregnancy! It's your legal right-and your body! Do you ask the courts and hospitals about what religion to choose, clothes to wear, make-up to put on? Do you let someone else decide what you should or shouldn't eat, whether you get a tattoo, a piercing-what courses you want to take in school? Or, what job you'd be most happy with? If you have a choice-keep making choices-wise choices-wrong choices, good and bad choices! Everyone makes their own decisions in life!
Planned Parenthood of America, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN all give support to a women's rights to her health care, HER CHOICES and her future! Choose to discuss the options in your life-they are your God given right!

posted by Susan at 12:02 AM

 
DICK CHENEY GOT HIS GUN!!!

Why do I find this article and this picture of our VICE PRESIDENT so appalling!??? We never hear or see Dick Cheney-and there he is with a gun-ready for what? To defend himself and the President as they are questioned (together and not alone) before the review committees, questioning what exactly went on prior to 9/11 and what are our goals now? We all joked that he could never find China, that he was out looking for Bin Laden in the mountains and how the two of them (PRESIDENT AND V.P.) had to be kept apart for the continuity of this country-and now-dressed in their suits-they'll walk into the same spot and sit down and talk-man talk, war talk, gun talk, money talk, Haliburton talk, FBI, CIA talk. What are these two going to do-as proposed so credibly in Newsweek-they are Me and Mini Me! Doesn't any one else think it's pecurliar for them to be TOGETHER and not questioned apart---and this big cheery shot of our gun lover Dick Cheney?? He's a huntin' and a fishin' with the big, bad, guys. They hang out at the ranch and sit in the high courts and they just pretend to fly planes together, and not talk much-but what's really goinbg on? I want to know. Because something did pass me last week as our Predsident was at his ranch-that he was just a showing around some people, warm bodies to talk about hunting. We are dangling on a string, the lives of our sisters, brothers, mothers. fathers, husbands, wives, aunts & uncles, our children-dangling them on the line-and losing the best and the finest. And, we are not prepared. We may dump some Haliburton turkeys and flash in and out on a jet-but what is this army supposed to do-sit like a sitting duck-waitng fo a war lord to call out a challenge? Either we fight to win or we leave. No use sitting like a target. Seems as if Spain has decided to call it quits. Were we supposed to be waititng for a big coalition that never happend? And,, Cheney goes to Tokyo. He hangs out with gun lovers-as if they shouldn't be sensitive to restrictions on guns-ask Nancy Regan and James Brady about gun control and see how they feel. They "DO" have feelings on gun control!!!!! I hate that picture of Cheney with a gun-smirking!

posted by Susan at 1:43 AM

 
John O'Neills Last Night before he died in the World Trade Center Twin Towers attack! John O'Neill knew more than anyone knew and they tied his hands over and over again! Whyw asn't he given a passport to go back to view the USS Cole and investigate? Why did he leave the agency? What we don't know-we should know!
posted by Susan at 12:33 AM

 
PBS Reports on John O'Neill who was a major FBI counter terrorism expert who left the FBI in August 2001 over criticism of George Bush's dealings with terrorism of Osama Bin Laden.
posted by Susan at 12:30 AM

 
Renewed Fighting in Fallujah as a frail temporary truce falls apart! Some solution has to come out of this! And, it can't be that we have united more terrorists to wage a ground war in the country of IRAQ! We are not back to the streets of West Side Story or The South Bronx! There are parts of the USA that need as much help as the tired, war torn IRAQ. The Iraqis have to fight for their freedom too. How can we unite a nation that democracy does not appeal to? What do they know of democracy-if there has been a dictatorship-which is falling to the anarchists. Which head ring leader deemed cleric will come out with his war torn gangs to abuse and torture more people in the streets? How do we curtail gang wars so far away?
And, why didn't anyone know what anyone else knew? Hasn't the government of the people for the people and by the people learned the lesson of sharing that they should have learned in kindergarten. Didn't Sean P. Diddy Coombs want to bestow computers on the City of New York? How about giving them to the FBI?
posted by Susan at 12:26 AM

 
A lawsuit was filed September 3, 2003 by the family of John O'Neill alleging a direct link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. John O'Neill and the Iraq, Fallujah Connection.

The Lawsuit Against Iraq & Participants of September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Attack as filed by the family of John O'Neill, Sr.
posted by Susan at 8:11 PM

 
Fallujah-A Year After The Fall of Baghdad and now what? What re the plans that our President has in mind-as he jets off to his Crawford Retreat for Easter? What about our soldiers and civilians and the civilians of the world who are dying, being wounded and kidnapped in Iraq?
When should we have dealt with the problems in Fallujah-immediately-not one year later-after we have allowed the insurgents to re-group-re-arm and attack Americans who are there to let the Iraq people gain "FREEDOM"???
And, now we stand back and allow the people of Fallujah to bury their dead, the women and the children march along with their dead martyrs!
And, as this article mentions:
"The Fallujah operation even prompted one of the most pro-American members of the U.S.-picked Governing Council, Adnan Pachachi, to condemn the U.S. assault on the city, which for some Iraqis has become a symbol of resistance.

“These operations were a mass punishment for the people of Fallujah,” Pachachi told Al-Arabiya TV. “It was not right to punish all the people of Fallujah and we consider these operations by the Americans unacceptable and illegal.”

So, I ask-what to do next? President Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfield, the team-what next, sit and have your Easter dinner as if nothing is happening???? Maybe secretly jet off to Iraq with an Easter Bunny? Condi-are you aware there is a war going on-and connecting the dots started in Kindergarten???

posted by Susan at 12:13 PM

 
John O'Neill Counter Terrorirsm Expert-Head of the Washington FBI Bureau is highlighted in this article in the New Yorker magazine. Rather long-but definitely informative with information about Richard Clarke, the hunt for terrorists and O'Neills unending fight to find and fight terrorism! The year is 1995! And, Clarke died September 11, 2001.
posted by Susan at 9:07 PM

 
Isn't it ironic-that Barnes & Noble does not have this book in stock-nor on order! Not one copy of: John O'Neill-The FBI'S Embattled Counterterror Warrior the former assistant FBI Director and expert on terrorism! Please read below!
And, after Condoleeza Rice-National Security Advisor, testified so eloquently-about her inferior knowledge in the area of National Security! As they say in a Court of Law-you knew or should have known-about certain subjects that are you are supposed to an expert about!
Whose blood was boiling-she asks-plenty of people-what about the Taliban-the Afghanistan renegades-disguised as your local Cleric! How does one become a Cleric? Do they have a gang of members band around you-and pay them??? Do you preach like a layman-and become an Unearthly Militant Clerical Fascist?
posted by Susan at 6:11 PM

 
John P. O'Neill-FBI former assistant FBI Director and an expert on terrorism, was in the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. His body was recovered on September 21, 2001. It was his first day on the job as Head of Security for The World Trade Center. He had worked on the USS Cole bombing and the bombings at the United States Embassy headquarters in Kenya & Tanzania and the World Trade Center. Capturing Ranzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing!
A poem to read about this intuitive man!The Ballad of John O'Neill Please read this poem-in honor of this man-who lost his life on September 11, 2001.
Read The Man Who Warned America, John O'Neill, FBI Counter Terrorism Expert by Murray Weiss to see exactly what this man knew-and what he told the political machinery and the world about terrorism-Bin Laden, Iraq, Muslim Practices and the information he had about being targeted with planes & the terrorist network in America!!

posted by Susan at 10:10 PM

 
FIERCEST FIGHTING TAKES PLACE IN FALLUJAH since the WAR ENDED!! When did the war end? Shock & Awe? (Which is a lot more deadly than a "Shock Jock!" Because you can't change the channel!!") When President Bush declared the END of the WAR on a swooping photo op on an Air Force Carrier? When we allowed Fallujah to fester like a rancid infested rat hole for over a year-allowing our troops to become bigger and more susceptible targets in the game of War!? Do the people in Iraq really understand what FREEDOM or DEMOCRACY is? Do they care about understanding OUR way of government?
My heart goes out to every family of a service woman & service man in Iraq and around the world. The battlefield for Democracy and Freedom is not always fought in the place is should be fought!
And, why did it take so long for anyone to realize that this WAS happening? Fallujah has been uppermost on my mind as a critical area for over a year! Quietly, like the gangs of the 50s, like the Mafia of the 30s, like the insurgents all over the world...they sat quietly, constructing and ordering weapons, playing mind games and setting up battle plans, while we stood by-watching the Republican Professionals line their pockets - Dick Cheney, Energy Commission stonewalling, Halliburton, Justice Scalia and hunting and fishing.....what for?
What is the plan in Iraq? What was the plan for Osama Bin laden in Afghanistan? What is the plan for the
ultimate turnover of the reins of government in these countries-and who are we turning it over to?
And, my last questions... if anyone can answer this....where are the posters printed they the militants hold up?? Someplace there has to be a printing factory. They have to transport these materials!! They need large quantities of food, supplies, ammunition & weapons!!! Will Tee Shirts come next? And, where are all the weapons coming from and how did they get there?
posted by Susan at 11:47 AM

 
Cleric Vows Resistance as US Marines and Coalition Troops Try to Control FALLUJAH!. Asd I have said for a year-there is something happening here-and why wasn't this one of the main places to be settled-early-in OUR War against TERRORISM? What did OUR President plan to do-when he said that the WAR was OVER on the Air Force carrier? What is happening to our Son's, Father's, our Mother's and Daughters as they fight in a foreign country that simply does not want to accept Democracy? Does not KNOW Democracy! How do you explain to people who were on the "take" during Saddam Hussein's regime-that they have no work? No money? No economy?
What about our out-sourcing of jobs to foreign countries-as our economy struggles and people are out of jobs in America-and our gas prices shoot higher-and our President stonewalls the most common questions and the VP Dick Cheney-lays low-still fighting not to reveal what actually went on during his energy commission meetings. Hello! Halliburton! Here, there and everywhere????
posted by Susan at 11:50 AM

 
I hear the same rhetoric in the newspapers, magazines, and on television. I see the talking heads and no one mentions the connecting of major dots! Why isn't anyone speaking out about John O'Neill and what part he played in trying to help counter terrorism? John O'Neill-Countered Terrorism and see how long this man had been working to let the government know what he feared! And, he gave his life at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, working as the security adviser for these very buildings! He knew-and they didn't like what he said or his style! Why? Notice the name Richard Clarke mentioned at the beginning of the article! Where is someone like Chris Matthews who has such strong feelings about getting to the truth?
posted by Susan at 10:26 AM

 
Another Fallujah Attack and the Bush administration is the same as the old Bush administration. If you had a year to work this out in this area-and I know about it-then how come this area is not secure and Bush DECLARES the END OF THE WAR and this still goes on?? Someone had to know something!
posted by Susan at 10:20 AM

 
Jubilant Fallujah Loyalist Ambush kills nine Americans and bodies are dragged through the streets as young boys and men cried out that they were the resistance! No attempts were made to secure the area or send emergency vehicles because the militarism and bombing by the Iraqi' resistance has become totally out of control!
Is this the NEW Vietnam? Didn't Bush declare that the war was over? Now what? When is someone going to either secure Fallujah or leave? We can not leave our soldiers to die! Tortured, burned and mangled? NO!
posted by Susan at 6:20 PM

 
NINE Killed in Fallujah in a bloody bombing with corpses dragged through the streets! And, cheering! Why? Why isn't something done about this place, that is so conveniently called a FLASHPOINT? It's a city out of control-filled with rebels, insurgents and warlords! Suipporters of Saddam Hussein? Haters of the US? Why have it be this way anymore? Why risk one more life in a place-that even I know is NOT a good place and have known for so many months! I'm not an expert on wars, or a military person, I read-and know!
What is wrong?
posted by Susan at 10:04 AM

 
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posted by Susan at 12:32 PM

 
Militant Al-Qaida Ambush Pakistani's in Wana was the NEWS of today! Tribal militants and terrorists who have a safe haven on the Pakistani border are retaliating against the Pakistani troops which have been sent to the border in search of Taliban and Al Qaida terrorists! We must face the fact that there are areas that we are not able to police or touch, unless we have total control. These are the areas that were left to the rule of the brutal-restrictive-religious zealot Taliban, who erased past history and dynamited the ancient Buddha which should have been preserved by the Untied Nations! Later the Taliban enabled terrorists to hide in Afghanistan, as well as rule the country with a tyrannical dictatorship! All funded by illegal monies and Bin Laden funds!
Interesting item on Page Six by Cindy Adams in the New York Post about Bin Laden's niece, Waffa Bin Laden: EVERYONE's galumphing around hunting that bed sheet Osama bin Laden. Why not follow Waffa bin Laden, his handsome niece. She had a million dollar loft on Spring Street with $6,000 a month maintenance. Over a Thai restaurant, it featured a huge mural the length of her whole wall. The mural was of The Twin Towers.

She also has a place in Switzerland, flat in London and schleps through the Riviera in season with $500 designer jeans, Jimmy Choos and friends who are downtown European-type jet-setters. She speaks of Uncle Osama. She's worth, give or take a few of those Audemars Piguet diamond watches she wears, $30 mil. Twenty-eight, the pop singer wannabe now lives in Europe, she still speaks to New York pals who are in showbiz and record producers. She invites them to visit her. She talks music. She gets showbiz advice. She had a boyfriend/manager who called her "the next Madonna."

Waffa was very out front p.r.-wise pre-9/11. Supermarket tabs, newspapers, TV blondes interviewed her. Then, two months before 9/ll, she told friends, "Get out of New York for a while." And she, too, got out of New York.

Her father, Yeslam, is one of Osama's 29 brothers. Maybe Uncle's hiding but she isn't. Anyone checking out Waffa, her kinfolk or her telephone?

posted by Susan at 7:06 PM

 
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posted by Susan at 11:34 AM

 
Fallujah: More Deaths and Wounding!! of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. What is our plan in Fallujah? And, how is it possible with our supposed "Shock And Awe" that hot beds of militants and terrorists are still using rockets to kill Iraqi and Americans? Citizens and Soldiers must be protected.
posted by Susan at 11:28 AM

 
McSweeney's Downtown for Democracy Readings are populated with the brightest writers, musicians and celebrities! "Where's My Democracy" in a fight to Beat Bush in November! I do wish that this organization could mobilize with the Democrats and bring their brilliance to Broward County/Palm Beach. Florida in a Monumental Fundraiser! If Lou Reed or Jonathan Franzen is listening; PLEASE!! We are a State in need of your support to Beat Bush!
Six Degrees of Separation & People We Know and Lake Oscawana! I know you will hear me!
Page Six the New York Post:
March 20, 2004 -- FAMED choreographer Stephen Petronio has enlisted some bold-faced buddies for his latest project, "The Island of Misfit Toys," which opens Tuesday at the Joyce Theater. Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson composed the music, artist Cindy Sherman designed the set, and Imitation of Christ's Tara Subkoff dreamed up the clothes. Immediately following the opening night performance, Petronio's posse celebrate the 20th anniversary of his dance company at Provence with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sandra Bernhard, Anne McNally, Franceso Clemente and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

posted by Susan at 12:51 AM

 
Tribal Wars in Wana on the Pakistan Border seem to be running fiercely. Seven thousand troops encircle an area of militant tribal Pakistani's, in a town that is populated by 50,000 with 70,000 more coming into the area for commerce daily. An interesting area-which seems at odds with the area-populated, paved roads and a thriving, though poor area, with warring tribal leaders, feuds, kidnappings and the residual Taliban-possibly those that fled Afghanistan. As Fallujah has proven a hotbed for militant resistance, so it seems that Wana will be the next place. Still today Fallujah proves to be a place that MUST be viewed as an extremely dangerous area . Guerillas In Fallujah and another death of our one of our country men. The toll is now 383-after President Bush declared VICTORY on our Battleship with much flourish and politcal campaign propaganda!
There were 70,000 Pakistani troops in this area in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban-only to have regrouped in another form-at a later time-and that time is now.
Pakistan Captures Islamic Militants but who they are and what they are capable of-is still the question. The "hidden" Taliban are very capable of reigns of terror and destruction. Money is not an issue with Osama Bin Laden still in an unknown location!
posted by Susan at 12:29 AM

 
Don't forget to support you favorite charity. There will be a run on Saturday for the Pediatric Juvenile Diabetes Association. Support a runner. Fort Lauderale Florida.
Politics1 is the place to keep up with your local Democratic Committee and compare our two party system. See who is running and cares about your future! John Kerry is our future!
posted by Susan at 6:28 AM

 
Great site for all the news about The Soprano's!!! Pictures and places to search for on your tour of New Jersey Mobville! Soprano Sue has dedicated this site to sightings of the mob family, places to visit and explanations of all the favorite haunts of the nuclear Soprano family!
posted by Susan at 1:20 AM

 
And, as The Soprano's starts off the year, North Caldwell, New Jersey hits the front page!
"No wonder Tony — who now bunks in, of all places, the shabby house of his despicable late mother — drifts back home on any pretext. There he scraps with Carmela, barks at sullen son A.J. (Robert Iler), chugs orange juice out of the carton as if he still ruled the roost, and pretends none of the fault is his.

It’s all part of a scramble for some sense of normality, for getting back a world that’s familiar and reliable. Happily for viewers, the search on “The Sopranos” this season could come with many new pitfalls."




Split Ends"

"In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less"
Walt Whitman

I was naive and young with two young children. Divorce had never entered my mind until the year
that all things fell apart. Was it the nights spent alone, dinner cold on the table with babies fed and bathed. No husband in sight. Was it their father relaxing and reading as the world turned and he was orbiting...nowhere to be found! Was it the night I planned that HUGE platter of fresh tomatoes and
basil and it was left uneaten? Think so? You’re right!
Could it be this new game of golf or was it the old game of tennis? It was apparent-there was someone else. And, though I confronted him over and over-he always said NO and denied it. Too many late nights, people calling who he was supposed to be at dinner with, weekends with his friends golfing and I was never included...or was it Father’s Day, June 1986 that finally brought the world to a halt. "I’d like to go with you-I asked and as he turned and said NO, it’s just the boys." I knew. He wasn't there for me or for the kids and I was on an island alone. Stupidity and inertia allows you to be duped and I was duped. Clear as a bell the Madonna and perfect mother-the Working Girl down the hall who worked so hard that she was ready for marriage #3 chose my "sweet, sensitive husband" as her attorney and thus the client /lawyer privileged nights of her woes, became my nightmare. Ever try divorcing a slimy attorney (and this is no joke) in the State of NJ with the good old boys looming over your head and all they care about is whether they can put a lien on your home and get your money from you-as the blood is flowing out of your arms-because bloodletting is the sport of the Tribunal. I was devastated. In love. So much time lost-such hurt and pain that the suffering would go on for years as the money dwindled. He was "poor" by the time the divorce was final. Poor on paper? Poor in quality of being? Just POOR! And, he lead the life of the secret wannabe jet setter with the fancy cars and homes and his oh so fancy "paramour", you see, she had worked so long and hard and had suffered in squalor so long that it was time to take her rightful pace in the noveau elite! She was ready to retire. I was ready to continue working as if all time had stood still. Yes, there is anger-for the time ripped from me with my boys. For the ache in my heart. For the stupidity and inability to move on. And, now as I see them all in the mist that has become the "nouveau riche" and the house "out east", The Hampton’s, I see how easily you can be conned by the ones you love. I always trusted men. I had been surrounded by men. Two brothers and a loving father. A mother who skipped the A’s and jumped to the B’s-Babies. Why hadn’t she taught me about Attorneys and Accountants? Because she was born in 1919 and a woman of the 50s. A loving wife and mother, a dinosaur to be replaced by scathing women who care very little as long as they get what they want. And, the doll that strutted her self down the hall from my husbands office had won her trophy-Husband #3!

"THE KORN IS AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANTS EYE AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S CLIMBING CLEAR UP TO THE SKY!" Oklahoma

















posted by Susan at 1:14 AM

 
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posted by Susan at 12:26 PM

 
One of my favorite Sci-Fi's is Invasion of the Body Snatchers, well, seems as if it's now: iPOD Body Invaders!. I knew it would come to this!
If there were so many people who said they couldn't live without their iPODS-rather than the true necessities-food and water...there was going to be a BIG PROBLEM! Zombies on the streets of New York, Chicago, LA, not that they weren't filled with this before-just a new and different twist to Metropolis!
posted by Susan at 12:22 PM

 
Happy Valentine's Day!
posted by Susan at 11:05 PM

 
It had to be you...The Great American Song Book! Read Rod Stewart's The Great American Song Book! for the lyrics from his newest CD'S! I'll be looking at the moon-and I'll be seeing you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Susan at 11:55 PM

 
Okay, I found myself at the RIGHT concert!!! YAY! Of course I KNEW that the concert with
ROD STEWART!!! was going to be bliss, but I was even more happily surprised that it was sold out-wild and definitely beautiful! Long Live Rock N' Roll! Yes, more years have passed than Rod knows, but since 1969 and Maggie Maywe have been in love! Okay,so I really, really like him! (As, Sally Field might say!)
There was a time when Maggie was the older woman and I longed to be her-well, I am her and I still think of late September and getting back to school-stealing my daddies cue and making a living out of playing pool. Maybe he'll find himself a rock n' roll band and who knows what??? The September's of my life have dawned-I now know that many of us have traded places-but we are who we are-and I am still longing with the same wonderment-as I did then-and Rod Stewart does too!
Forever Young, Do you Think I'm Sexy, Tonight's the Night and so many more, Rod had the arena in the palm of his hand and we loved him too!
There have been a few enduring loves: Rod Stewart, Walt Frazier and of recent, Chris Isaak and of course Adam Vinatieri, yes the New England Patriots did win-just like they were supposed to! With a graceful kick by Adam. Just as graceful as Rod Stewart kicking the soccer balls into the audience!
I have to say, he did lose me for the second half of the concert-as he began his big band crooning-though done well, and a big hit-I missed the crazy, wild Rod Stewart! But, he did come back strong! Including a song done by Louie Prima of the Louis Prima & Keely Smith duo, which "must" mention Keely Smith because she was an intricate part of the successful team! Louie walked out with all the money and left Keely with two children and an a heart that was cared for by the Rat Pack! So, for Keely Smith-here's to you! I always loved those tight waisted skirts and your twirl & demeanor! You were his Gracie Allen and deserve respect! Just as Rod gave respect to his back up with a solo of Proud Mary and devastating saxophone equal to the E Street Band and Bruce Springsteen and a violinist that was as beautiful as Bob Dylan's fav violinist Scarlett Rivera!
I'll be looking at the moon, and I'll be seeing you!
It just could not have been better! Unless I was in the front row! But, to be there is enough and the seats were wonderful! The montage put together was a trip in history, Rod & I at every stage of our lives and great black and white photographs of New York and the Big Band Era! Including Sam Cooke!
And, Rod has no fear about covering other peoples music. He is smooth, graceful and a stage presence! I guess that's why he "IS" Rod Stewart!
So, to Rod, thanks for a wonderful evening! I couldn't be happier! Thank you!

posted by Susan at 12:44 AM

 
Adam Vinatieri kicker for the New England Patriots stands out! #4-Adam-we next to you! Tom Brady we are next to you, too! A fabulous team!
And, with Steve Tyler/Tallerico of Aerosmith starting off the game-we KNOW that we are all rooting for the New England Patriots!

posted by Susan at 7:44 PM

 
Three More Soldiers Killed near the town of Fallujah. It's a hot bed for strikes against US soldiers, Iraq Soldiers, women, men and workers. And, something has to be done. Something or someone acts from this position of strength and support. Why should we stay here and just be accepting of the fate of our men & women in the service? And, when the reports are that soldiers are injured-remember a bandaid does not heal these kind of wounds.
As reported in the Miami Herald we are fighting to uproot an Al Qaida Cell in Fallujah a staunch anti-American area where many have been killed.
On January 8th a Black Hawk Helicopter Downed killing 9 soldiers and wounding 33 more. Fallujah is said to be a "flash point", so what was the point of "Shock and Awe" if we can't control one area that is the most dangerous for our soldiers.
There comes a time when a liberated nation, free of its dictator has to take over and control its own people. If there are to be religious factions, warlords, or fringe groups all fighting with each other and the United States, we have to realize that this is a Guerilla War and take out troops out of harms way. Bring them home where they can be safe-and perform another shock and awe, and than let our President declare an end to the war on a naval ship, with all the regalia of a photo op for the most brilliant Survivor Show.

posted by Susan at 10:00 AM

 
Sara Brightman, the former star of Phantom of the Opera , 1969 as Christine, starring opposite Michael Crawford, a part written for her by Andrew Lloyd Weber her ex-husband and brilliant composer, continues to perform! Please Andy-we need another part written just for her!
We never knew what “it” was called during High School, but a friend coined the phraseology.
“It starts in your toes and works its way up to your knees and suddenly you’re bolting out of the room.” Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather, Part Two and Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) in The Soprano’s have suffered panic attacks. Michael’s infamous attack happened when he found out that his brother already knew Johnny Ola (Dominick Chianese) and he had taken him to the “sex club” in Havana, Cuba. Michael rubs his eyes knowingly-and fades in and out as his eyes search for the man who will kill his brother Fredo because he had turned against the family! As if anyone needs to know this!!
But, I need to know this-because I suffered a panic attack at “The Sara Brightman Spectacular Spectacular!!!!
And, I had a riveting awe-inspiring evening!
A Night With Sara Brightman.
Fluttery-absurd, self-involved with a huge crowd of pansexual admirers.
DEFINITION OF PANSEXUAL:
One who exhibits or suggests a sexuality that has many different forms, objects, and outlets. One who exhibits many forms of sexual expression.
PRONUNCIATION:
pan·sex·u·al • (noun)
EXAMPLES:
I think pansexual is a broader term than bisexual because it includes not only loving both men and women but also transgendered people and gender fluid people who do not feel they fit into categories of male or female.

Consisting of homosexual, asexual, metrosexual, heterosexual, gay, queer, lesbian, transsexual, transvestite, dominant, submissive, male female-genderless, gender crossing, femme, butch, dyke, bois of varying degrees of life, including but not limited to a sexual/non-sexual person.
How is it possible that Sara Brightman could actually perform an act that was Cher in drag? CHER is a TOP RATE DIVA, superior in all ways to Sara Howling Screech!
But, Sara Honey- your confetti is the most egocentric thing a person can do! Making someone, anyone, clean confetti crap (is it pixie dust?) off his or her person is an insult! Twinkle? I do not like the idea of cleaning up someone else’s mess-especially when it is a planned message sent to you with “love”. Get off your swing, pass down the Tinkerbell/Peter Pan torch-and stop playing little girl lost-waving to the crowd with a fluttery hand that would help Miss America search for a cause! And, get rid of the tutu!
I enter “The Sara Brightman Spectacular Spectacular”.
Pre-Show, The Bathroom Boutique
I asked two women if they were on line. Just wanted to position myself-as the leggy blonde with the very done/surgical/young face turned and snapped: YES! I stood behind her as I noticed, black stiletto heels strapped at the ankle. Black sheer stockings, the tightest shortest black skirt. A strange fitted jacket, a bit long, large shoulders and sequins at the sleeves. Her face was the immaculate presence of an augmented faced, collagen-lipped doll. Her hair fell into a soft flip-but why was she wearing a wig-and anyway-wasn’t she really too young to have her face done that way? She marched off as time ticked on, teetering on her heels-side to side. I was impressed.
Finding my way back to the proper area, I sat down and told my partner about this fair maiden. As she marched up the aisle to her seat-she was met by a large metal bar-a railing blocking her way. Now, any woman would have glided around, said excuse me and sat in her seat. But, this woman, dressed in a skirt as tight as a tube of paint, heaved her leg, heels and all, over the railing, to properly seat next to her middle aged male mate. What and who was SHE really?
My companions were not in love with our seats being the ultimate fans of Sara Brightman and so we headed to our new seats-filling the lower decks of the auditorium. The promoters wanted this to appear to be a full house.
Sara Brightman arrived on stage channeling a five year old in her fairy princess costume. Riveted towards the stage as the I Dream of Genie Gals shimmied their asses and boobs at us-and noxious gases arose around the stage-I was met by what I now know to be-The Harem Tour! Sara brings her girls, no men, to dance in a limited fashion as she pirouettes cautiously down the stage-high stepping and not doing much else. I did see her rise above the audience on a glowing phallic symbol. Was the applause for the song or the stage rising? And, there was Sara swinging on a swing as if she was Jessica Lange in King Kong and she flew above the stage as Mary Martin in Peter Pan. Do we praise the stagehands for bearing the burden of the strings-or for Sara continuing to howl in her diminutive way?
A cross between Jim Morrison nodding on Peyote or Mescaline as the strobe lights glitter-limited back up-except for the covering orchestra-a mandolin and one person meditating with a tambourine! (Do not let me forget the duet-properly introducing someone who sang 2 or 3 lines and left the stage. Afraid of being upstaged, Sara honey?) Poor costumes. A variation of Red and Green (post Xmas-pack up the stuff) and harem costumes transforming themselves into The Dominatrix Girls in a shiver and a strip!
Sara Brightman, leggy in a silver lame teddy/costume with jingles, fringe and crystals and stunning thigh high boots-we are the picture of a stage stripper-with a bellowing voice-that is only challenged by the speaking voice-which is that of her five year old British persona.
And, as I watch the stage-the blond in the first row, directly in front of the stage-has to sit on her buddies lap to get a better view-as her head waggles in the shimmer of light-will someone managing the stage tell her sit her ass down-or is she so enthralled that the rest of the auditorium has to watch the blond doll’s performance?
Have you ever found yourself at the wrong concert? You knew you had tickets to go someplace-but this was not the right place, the place you belong. The place that makes the beat of your heartbeat smoothly-not anxiously annoyed?
Singing “Procol Harem’s, A Whiter Shade of Pale”, I am drawn to the fact-that she does not reach me at all. Blasphemy! Masked Diva, of “Eyes Wide Shut” while the Princess of flowing tutu scales the heights on her swing.
I am not quite sure why there is a standing ovation. I am sure that this is an audience in love with Ms. Brightman, and I am happy that you found yourselves at the “right” concert. Whether she has coyly copied the likes of Cher, Carmen Miranda, Charo or Barbara Eden in “I Dream of Jeanie”, she is appealing to a large, devoted flock of people. People who love props, the appeal of the illusion, and the dark dominatrix fading to the innocent, glittery, Fairy Princess. The howl of a stage voice, crossed with a scream! If only I had worn a long, fluffy, curly, black wig and dressed in black or as Tinkerbell with my chiffon sleeves and little rhinestone crown, maybe I too, would have felt like I belonged.
But, I did not. And, I do not like cleaning up after you Ms. Brightman. I like listening to many female artists and male artists, but you are my least favorite. Thank you very much-for the finale and the ending to your “Spectacular Spectacular”! I truly, wistfully enjoyed the end.



posted by Susan at 9:17 PM

 
Sunday PM, AM, Winter In New York
It was late, we had crossed DeLancey and gone around so many corners that lights flashed and arrows pulsated. Buildings looming at the side of the street-large, ominous. Had J&J just said to me earlier that they too lived in this building and how did someone I knew have such a prestigious apartment on the top floor? Luck, I surmised-I knew little. Crossing the threshold of the building, I knew what to do, how to get in-but I was oblivious-and so, my friend came down and rescued me, Prince in tow. We talked for hours. Finally, I was going to get a bit of peace. A large bed, a place to lay my head. Exhaustion. I lay down-drifting into another land. But, the city was hot, very hot and steam heat radiated throughout the room. Windows open-air at a premium. And, the sounds of the city. New, noisy horns, buses, sirens!! I had heard it all-growing up, so close to the elevated train. But, new to the ears of a dreaming soul.
And, as dawn approached, as if an occupying force was entering the city. Religious, Fanatical, Fascists, Nazi's, Booming Boxes?? What was the sound piercing the early morning breeze? A sermon, played on a loud speaker-indistinguishable noise shouted to the heavens, to the masses, bleary eyed, I questioned why? Freedom of speech, right to choose, where to worship, what to listen to-I had no choice. I drifted on a cloud of babble and dozed.
posted by Susan at 10:02 PM

 
iPODS Dirty Secret is brilliant. Ever since I read New York Magazines Personals.Com section-which is a bit underwhelming (original format desired!), I wondered, what is an iPOD and how had I managed to live without it for so long? You see, most singles personal advertisers had listed their iPOD as something they could not live without. And, so, I happened upon this commentary by the Neistat brothers and I applaud them!
And, for those of you, like me, who do not know what an iPOD is you can view APPLE-iPOD
The super-slim iPod defines what a digital music player should be. It’s lighter than two CDs, can hold up to 10,000 songs, thousands of digital photos and works as a personal voice recorder. Now you can sync with iTunes for Mac and Windows at blazing speeds, and take your entire music collection with you wherever you go. Available for Mac and Windows starting at $299.

By the way, has anyone figured out where cell phone users can go, when using their phones? Phone Booths are obsolete, but the yabbering of the cell phone user is both annoying, distracting and a major disturbance-especially in public places. It's second hand sound, like second hand smoke, just louder, more obnoxious and self centered. It's a new group of people orbiting in another dimension, but with you! Twilight Zone anyone? Who cares what DVD or CD your child will listen to at their next play date? Or, whether you have to get an older person an aide, into assisted living or out of your life?
Ms. Manners where did you go?
APPLE-iPOD
posted by Susan at 12:49 PM

 
Tied Tight
They are taut, high strung, strung out, pulled, crisp, too fast, too intense, rushing.
Slapping the wind with briskness as they shop-razor sharp. They are the women of fashionable New York, Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. Tightly wound as a rubber band, ready to be snapped. Is this energy and hypocrisy, a source of the dilemma of being so uptight that you can almost say, they can never be tight enough?
Is the winter Mongolian fur or Shearling fitted and long, swinging and loose, revealing your boots, too black, too high, and too pointy? Have we turned the mass appeal into no appeal as all who walk, rush, push, eat or shop fall into categories of androgenonous fame or non-fame? I see them. I have always seen them. I have always loved the energy of the “happy feet” as they walk the streets of New York. But, now, they are indistinguishable from one another. There’s the frosted blonde, brunette and the red hennaed head of hair. Fussy, unfussy, pulled together and put together with nothing other than an accessory so interchangeable that it swiftly moves from a shopping bag with newly purchased possessions to adorable children as prized possessions. Yes, these are the women of Madison Avenue.
I stroll through the Metropolitan Museum Of Art seeing the happy family of the familiar and the crisp display of the new. Images passing before me of grandeur, creativity, artistry of another world. Was it the El Greco with the haunting Icon imagery or the Men in Skirts display at the Costume Exhibit? The daguerreotypes and black and white images of times passed, a glimpse of what was, compared to what is? Shall Salome sit at the edge of the hall as I glide past her, watching her eyes follow me like an image at The Clift, Ian Shragers Hotel?
Was it the Temple of Dendur, overwhelming, grand, sitting quietly in the space of this huge room, as I was weaving my way to the display of the Frank Lloyd Wright room, deconstructed, resurrected, that brought me such peace? Having arrived, I am simply, blissfully happy! I could stay the day, many days, meandering through the treasures of the cultures of the ages.
Architecture, glass, oil, canvas, metal, wood, stone, alluding to all that truly is important and not disposable-this is reality.
And, yet the women of the city are like a herd of common, yet elite cattle-has mad cow disease bestowed itself upon them? There are no distinguishing features. The table is full-four women sit-faceless, ageless, I do not turn. High powered-comprehensive, significant! The voices of the all important (as I eavesdrop on the bizzness culture) lunching at the corner coffee shop are clippy, snippy, direct. “Our team can work with your team, and we can bring so much to the table, that our plate is not full or is our plate full? Our team is full of ideas to work with your team. And, we must be exposed in areas we have never been exposed before. Should we try the Metro Section, New York Post with a tidbit on Page Six? New York Magazine? Or the most important....do not let us forget the ever-growing Internet.”
And, now for the animal mundane. “Who will use the bathroom first? How many rooms are there? Who will watch the table, our coats?” The cattiness begins as one by one the women leave the table to take their turns. A different dynamic erupts each time. Voices grow deep, strong, and shrill. We are setting goals and undermining our goals, we are multi-faceted, pure strategies of gossip, manipulation to claw our way, our team’s way into position. Is this a huddle of sorts without the field and paraphernalia that men adorn themselves in-for each Sunday’s game? This is the game.
Grand Central, newly illuminated, grand, a city within a city, cold, stark, a median lobby, a space station, running, lots of running. Men in black, wrapped, women, clicking, black coats flailing, iPODS, cell phones, brief cases, Palm Pilots, they are cut and dry-the warriors of New York as they head to their tunnel-cramming their bodies into tubes with heads wrapped, hairy or bald, young or old, riding the rails to home-wherever that may be.
But, the question is when will they don their skirts? Because that is what the Met is introducing as topic of the period: Costume Exhibit: Bravehearts-Men In Skirts!
posted by Susan at 12:33 PM

 
Please scroll down for earlier entries of The Evil Lord DePukly, Land of Fet Flawber and the monstrous Chegly Begbelly, Obnoxia.

"The Drill" of DePukly
A messenger had been sent to DePukly, Lord of Fet Flawber, making him aware of the dilemma of one of the Rosarians. Help was needed. Though the words were biting and stung many hearts-he was unmoved, methodical, critical and filled with retribution. No understanding of humanity surrounding him. A child in need.
Stealthy he swiped his large body across the newly acquired rugs, from lands far from his manse. He called it finding them, but truly it was appropriation. Take what you want-and leave nothing for anyone. Sweat poured from his body. Thrusting open the window over the courtyard; he burst forth, tumbling out onto the balcony. Bellowing at his servants and townspeople below-venting, he began, “ I will not jump to any decisions about the Rosarian. He has had a mere set back. I have heard the story before”. (It was well placed on a sheaf of parchment, delivered to him earlier.) He had replied to those surrounding him, “I have heard the drill.” (This was his interpretation of what all who were wise knew, but he would bury the truth.) “I will not embrace this or accept it” Of course there was an unintelligible fear of disgrace. When all had been announced to the crowd, taking no more than a minute. “I will do nothing about this,” he hissed this like a slovenly animal worming its way across the mud. Screaming he said, “And, now that I do not agree with the assessment, who will dare to yell at me?” A whisper was heard fro the small crowd below, “No. Thank you.” And they were on their way, knowing better than to involve themselves with this recent ruling.
The crowd disbursed when the shutters were flung closed. With this, his dear wife and mistress, Chegly Begbelly Obnoxia heaved her massive body over DePukly, smothering him in grime and flesh. Her fungus encrusted nails burrowed their way into his neck, drawing the awful stagnant blood. A shrill from her throat, “I challenge you, I shall scream!” This said, while Depukly lay writhing in pain.
And, a dove fluttered from a land far away, singing Mex, Mex, Mex, a sound that emanated from the birds of the heavens for scores of years. It was part of the history.

posted by Susan at 10:25 AM

 
It started on the subway to Fulton Street in New York City. No, not a sighting of Britney Spears or Madonna...just a booming voice as the train started rumbling along. Packed as we were like sardines or tic tacs and a captive audience - no harm to come?? We are New Yorkers, after all! Sam Kenyon stood near me. Guiding me through the tunnels of the underworld of New York, Sam Kenyon was a Superman, undaunting in his travels through the netherworlds, above and below the city!
"THE VOICE" started with his monologue-though as typical New Yorkers-neutral and idling we stood.
Could this be a Seinfeld episode or Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm?
"MaaaaaaaaaaMeeeeeeeeeee and I are here because our daughterrrrrrrrr has died from inhaling smoke at a
fi---eerrrrrrrrrrrrrr (fire)! We paid 259.00 dollars to bury her, but the bill is over two thousand (2,000) dollars and we need your help and love of God and any pennies or dimes that you can reach into your pocket to give us! We need your help. We have proof of her death with a death certificate that I carry and a picture of my daughter. If you do not like giving me the money, I also have the address of the Funeral Home so you can send the moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee there!
We are coming to collect what you can give....come on Maaaaaaaaaa-miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
And, as the voice boomed back and forth-hissing down my neck-EXCUSE MEEEEEE!!!!!EXCUSE MEEEEEEEEEE..closer and closer and finally....Maaaaaaaaa-mmmmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiii you have to speak louder-they are deaf." (Totally inappropriate for a man who understands and screams about his suffering!)
As if, there was even an inch to move, to allow another scam to move on by...as the woman beside him followed, head bent, I wondered whether he would post the information on a special website!! Was it real-or an Urban Legend?
posted by Susan at 9:13 PM

 
Happy Holidays!
Where I start is at the middle earth. First of all-Sean P. who wrote a critically, scathing review in the Sun Sentinel about the Simon & Garfunkel concert has probably been watching too many very poor "IN" groups! Who is IN? Maybe INSYNC or Back Street Boys?What happened last nite at the Mega Florida Theater (which by the way looks like Madison Square Garden-air dropped into the marshes on the edge of the Everglades with hovering spaceship lighting) which may be named Office/Home Depot/National Car Rental/ Center/ Auditorium was history. Aren’t we tired of being homogenized by corporate America and its symbols for success? It's reallyjust putting the mainstreet/hometown stores out of business!
What we all heard were voices, lyrics processed, older, warmer, more meaningful. From decades past, hearts broken, split ups that were emotional-and still seem emotional-if not more full of understanding. Really, have you ever broken up with a significant other and the time passed and it would never be? As far as I am concerned they did a wonderful job, patching up any diffferences-and not always singing "TO" each other, but, MOSTLY singing all the time with each other. Melodies I clearly remember as many others did too. We saw two of the most proliphic writers, singers, vagabonds tell the truths about the world they saw for generations and turn it into song. (Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, Dion and...) There wasn’t a song that I did not know, as if it belonged to my own family. One sentence-most specially and with more meaning to me, “silence like a cancer grows”, for what did we even know about cancer in our generation. It happened to someone else-or a rare parent or relative would be stricken with the unknown-but there it is. Looking fit-curly haired Art, standing tall, introducing his Mom & a muscular and more intense Paul. They have come over miles of troubled and peaceful waters-and never stopped disseminating the truth. Slow to break out in the beginning of the concert-the Office Depot Etc. is not the best venue for these men, we were happily surprised by our other brothers, The Everly Brothers, Don & Phil. Me, who had always believed my brothers were Don and Phil. Well, also Ricky and David! (Am I losing anyone?)My brothers being 7 & 11 years older-this was my perspective as the younger sister. I embraced them. With Wake Up Little Susie, Dreamin' - they harmonized beautifully and skillfully with Simon & Garfunkel! It didn’t take much. A chord and melody and we were all thrust back and forward spinning in an intricate web of constant time and emotion. Thank you! Thank You! I am so happy that will all grew up and learned to share.
Read the review in the Sun Sentinenal by Sean Piccoli!! Simon & Garfunkel Sing Again This is just a story that I believe has to be told in a less predictable antiseptic tone-as in;does the ice maker in the refrigerator worK? or can we use the car without gas and try? The story I believe should grow up a bit and maybe think about the history that has passed and where have we been? By the way-where was he when Kennedy died? Because much of this tuning, harmonizing and bickering, takes a back stage to a very glorious creative career-and they are still here and we all did see them. So when Christine Aguillera acts sings pooorly and acts like a lap dancer and the videos smoke or she rips her panties or stockings, or Britney grinds on a bedpost or microphone or Madonna (the Maven) kisses the shrews to get her name in headlines, let’s remember what real music is. And, dear Russell Simmons, the philanthropist & mogul and his conspicuous spend thrift trophy wifey, the dedicated Kimora might want to support positive music, so that the rappers who get killed are not portrayed as heroes who have fallen. Sorry, I grew up on those streets and you have to respect someone-parents-caregivers,friends, teachers (or let there be anarchy/Clockwork Orange?). Be as creative as you want-lyrics aside-and grabbing crotches (very macho important) I think most of the lyrics are poor at best (fight the beat of your heart) are nasty, vicious and promote negativity-guns, killings, pain, including (but not limited to) "Black Eyed Pease au courant...for the new Girl Group /Shut Up, Shut Up!!! I hope they’re saying shut up to the masochistic, unintelligent machine that is brewing in the world of music! The Boroughs of New York! Come on Bronx-it was a good place to grow up-nothing wrong with it. Poor, ethnic and, we were fighters and street kids too. Not for turf-but for originality-for sparking on some new trend. No guns, piercings, tattooes around, in and under the cracks of your bod. Just something real to offer the world. Do you think that Ralph Lauren ever argued about a design on a tie with Calvin Klein? Even though they both grew up in the Bronx and went to Junior High School 80 on Mosholu Parkway. Now, really-it's the gangster persona and you better change it-or you fail-like we all did. No race, religion or color! Just basic acknowledgement and accountability of what was expected from you! And, if you don’t like it-and you create chaos and unrest-you better leave and let the little ones learn. Thank you to Spike Lee for understanding this and speaking out! Anyone can be negative-even Eminen has survived! And, with eyeglasses now! Break Out! You're young and very good! Does Russell Simmons and pretty Kimora Arm Candy getting into their limo and cruising to the Hamptons for the holiday with their beautiful people, really help anyone? Let's take back the world that existed before the lyrics of songs turned to hatred of men, women and children! Move to a more intimate, less posse protecting atmosphere for our glittery body. Accept, reject and love the adulation! Russell Simmons' answer to the editor of New York Magazine falls short of the real problem with rap-it’s not pretty-none of it is pretty-now does Russell consider his wife or the people he hangs out pretty? It's harmful, hurtful and destructive! No way around it-and it's the people that make up the street! The people have the city at their fingertips! It’s the same train ride away from my neighborhood, as it used to be. The city is there for you to enjoy and educate yourself in life, love, culture, and land! Stop posturing and hanging with only "your" gang/group/posse/people??? We're all so creative! We all have to grow!

posted by Susan at 5:12 PM

 
A fabulous contemporary art collection can be viewed at The Tehran Museum of Contemporay Art. Take a look at the ART COLLECTION and see some of the best from Picasso, Warhol, Kandinsky, Pollock, Chagall, Bacon, Miro and so many more! Wonderful!
posted by Susan at 1:35 PM

 
And for all the soldiers that die-we cry.
And, for all the Soldiers That Are Wounded we have to pray. Treat them with respect, give them the best care and ability to lead a full life. And, bring home the troops that fight for their life-and let the Iraq people die for their freedom.
Dalton Trumbo wrote a moving book about a World War Two wounded man-no ability to cry out to the outside world. Please read Johnny Got His Gun and continue to hope our troops come home safely. And somehow, somewhere, freedom is understood by terrorists, gangs, warlords, religious fanatics and the like. Take a bit of money and serve it up to those in desperate need and they will do anything for you. They did it for Hussein, Arafat, Bin Laden and Hitler-didn't they? What we have now in Iraq is anarchy! Ask Al Sharpton with his sharp tongue what the South Bronx was like in the 70s! We've come a long way!
posted by Susan at 4:40 PM

 
Another Fallujah Tragedy and nothing seems to stop it. I have had bad feelings about this area for some time. And, now this trajedy only makes me feel worse. There is no cooperation in Fallujah and probably won't be-becasue the younger people are funded by an underground network. This isn't too hard to see. Bad economy-underworld funds-war lords, gangs and fabatics! It's anarchy. Unless we are able to sweep through the homes and secure areas-nothing will be safe. If one of the problmes is, that the American men are "looking" at the Muslim women in their homes, than let them leave their homes for a secure area and let these areas be searched. We have been criticized for not respecting their rights, well, as far as I can understand-what rights were there aunder Hussein? The Muslim men don't want the women to have rights-it's a religious control issue-something an American has diffoiculty underastnading-especially women. We do have choices! These women do not have choices-cvan not leave houses unescorted and can not be seen by other men-only the family. Fine, guarantee them their right to stay covered, at a school, a police station, a mosque. Than find out as much as you can about the areas that house terrorists-who continue to be funded by others-who want control. Or, we leave and let them brutalize each other into submission. And, we go back when Hussein or his funded men surface. Any other ideas? Why shoudl our men die for people whoi are going to commit crimes, to get a butcher back in power? Any person who would torture and assassinate the way Hussein did-doesn't deserve to control anything.
posted by Susan at 4:13 PM

 
A great reference for the works of Edgar Allan Poe. And, just in time for Halloween or anytime. One of my favorites!
posted by Susan at 2:37 AM

 
Please check out SUTIQUE for the best collection of vintage bras. There are Goddess, Warners, Peter Pan, Vanity Fair, Corde De Parie and many more. Many are still in the original boxes. The choices are endless and the styles are wonderful. There are longline, circle stitch and bullet bras. Great for the vintage lingerie collector. Having a bra or a few bras like these is very special! Great prices! Look now and email me at mallistar@aol.com!
Also, take a look at Swinging Chicks of the 60s and more.... You can see Brigette Bardot, Ursula Andres, Goldie Hawn, Ann Margaret, Britt Ekland, Petula Clark, Faye Dunaway (love Bonnie and Clyde) and so many more! It's a fun site with lots of information about all of these great female actresses and celebrities!
Rent the DVD of BonFire of the Vanities to see Kim Catrall of Sex in the City as the uptight X-Ray woman of Park Avenue, playing Tom Hanks wife and Melanie Griffith as Hanks girlfriend. This movie is full of celebrities-and Bruce Willis is shining!
Great for Halloween! You must see the best video/dvd from 1969 with subtitles, three short films: Spirits of the Dead. Jane Fonda in her rare Barbarella form has a love interest and it's Peter Fonda, Brigette Bardot is in one and also Terrance Stamp. Subtitles and very eerie/surreal and by Edgar Allen Poe and Fellini mixed in! You will really like this and it can be picked up at any library!
So, please check out SUTIQUE and scroll down to view some gorgeous vintage lingerie!
posted by Susan at 2:21 AM

 

posted by Susan at 2:09 AM

 
You must take a look at SUTIQUE. It's my website. I sell the best vintage, new and never worn bras and other vintage clothing. Starting with my bra collection-which is vast! The best Goddess Bra, Peter Pan, Corde De Parie, Vanity Fair, Warners and more. These are all original-from the 1950s and 1960s. There are the best pictures on theses boxes. Some street scenes of Paris, some very Cleopatra stylish women-ala Elizabeth Taylor and some with the funkiest 60s flowers and designs. You must see these bras!
Remembering what it was like to go into a corset shop and be greetedby older ladies who would help FIT yu int your nw bra. There were the starter bras with small cups for the blooming young girls and larger cups for older women. You never picked your own bra-but waited graciously in a fitting room as somene helped you! These bras are from that type of store. The women got much older and sold the contents of the shop. It's now mine, to share with you!
posted by Susan at 1:57 AM

 
Hidden Myth
What would be-was never foreseen. Time was forever changing the landscape of the mind. Of course, in the world of DePukly, nothing was what it appeared. Now it was even more amazing. Sopora sat in wonderment and knew that it was once again her time to wait.
Time had made the Coronians look to DePukly for guidance. And, Chegly Begbelly, the swollen rot of humanity would take utter pride in amassing the splendor of the groveling herd. The Wormealions would bathe each sore as it appeared and put lotions of rat heart on the sores. Nothing would help her, but the Woormealions were have slaves, her children. Now, she would be able to look at the Coronians, deep into their being, gloating as her bloated facial tics spread across the face clustered with boils. Heaving her breasts with pride, she had finally reached deep into the caverns of the innerspace of the offspring of DePukly. What power she held and what myths she could play upon them. To look to the fabled beastly utters of Chegly was a massive contradiction of the beauty and truth of life. Begbelly had been known to all as a shrew. It was simple understood, that she alone could never be trusted. And, DePukly adored this, in his sinister fashion. The meeting of DePukly, a pathological plot to meet the sociopath of her dreams. One who would carry out her crimes and gloat with each move. The Wormealions would do Chegly Begbelly's daily chores as they impregnated themselves into the golden world of the Lord DePukly. They would be at his calling.
The myth of the hidden gold and wealth seemed to provoke the wildest of dreams. And, in such a way, that the young ones searched for the meaning of life amidst the swell of the toys of the Lord DePukly.
Sopora knew that all she had instilled was hidden beneath layers of flesh and blood.
It would take time for them to understand family from gold and what life and living meant in a humble way. They had taken many small steps and more would come. She would sit studying the books of legends of the land of the lakes and talk to the elders. They would guide her through the craters of her mind. Their mountains and streams would become her fulfillment. Until another time, they would share very little and thus, Sopora would grow. Hoping the Coronians would grow as well, she knew life would continue on. It always does.
Moments creeping.
To Oblivion.
posted by Susan at 11:15 PM

 
The Robarians, Sweet Alysa

Alysa and Acinsa had been together for a lifetime. Close sisters. You would not have asked for women better than these. Their parents were glowing. Only goodness was felt from this family, from the beginning of time. There was warmth, understanding and truth. They lived to love their children, their grandchildren and the world around them. And, they vowed to do all they could to save their familyfrom Lord DePukly.
DePukly had a brother during his early years. Though all loved Lord Roba, DePukly shunned him. First gathering him into his arms and then rejecting him. DePukly’s goal at this point of their time on earth was to control the gold and power that DePukly’s family name held. He would do anything to gain power over his brother and his family. The brother, Lord Roba was the one who could not quite meet the demands of the family. Or, he had met the demands, but there was always more wanted and desired. It was never enough. Lord Roba of Fet Flawber was a good man with a caring heart. Years of too much gold had turned Lord Roba into someone he was not. The gold had changed him and given him a surreal power that he could not control. At times he became the beast, lost, rolling, craving, healing-not knowing which way to flip his body. I cry for you Lord Roba because your goodness was real-it coursed through your veins. There were no hidden agendas. But, money brings so many freedoms. Freedoms are freedoms from what? Pressure, behavior, participation in the world? Love and caring?
It became a secret and only few could talk about it-or, were allowed to talk of it. Everything in the Fet Flawber family archives has been hidden in notes, thoughts and pictures of the charming family-all a sham. Only the supreme women of the family know the truth and the history. Few can tell it. Alysa and Sopora, though separated by the ages, know. And, the father, Lord Coro, knew. Though too many years have passed and he is at a place-an uneasy rest.
Alysa waits to piece the puzzle together. Yes, she has marched on, not quite understanding and hunted by DePukly. So many have told her that DePukly only hates. Scorn and venom seethe from him and pain oozes from his body. There is no reason “why?” he should hunt or hurt, it is just who he is.
Roba’s children, the Robarian’s knew this too. And, the Coronias, truly know. So entwined in the myth of family, they all stood on the edge of the land of Lord DePukly Fet Flawber. Never to be part-only a parcel, like an orb. Polished to a shining glint and then returned, dirty and ravaged. So many trying hard to break from the will of DePukly. But, as with many, they were trapped. They stood strong and tall with their family and tried their hardest to make life exist in a peaceful way. None should have to grovel at the bulging feet and stench of Chegly Begbelly or DePukly, but so many were made to behave in this manner. It bruised your spirit and mind. To the powers willing and to God, the day would come when none would have to deal with the hateful DePukly.
Sopora tried as she could, the few times that she was able to converse with Alysa, that the Lord DePukly was a despicable human. If human at all. The best was not to deal with Depukly or he would harm you and ban you from any hope of understanding, For, try as you might, there was no way to understand. What IS, IS.
He would think of ways, games, to hurt your heart, betray your life; spill his venom that was the only way. It brought him misery, and misery was his humor. It was all a cruel game and nothing more. Begbelly had learned this and tricked and deceived her way into the being of DePukly. As, the woman who would say, I am your savior, Begbelly would crawl with repugnancy to pretend that she was the mother of earth. Trick all to think that she was the goodness of an everlasting womanly spirit. Lies all. While in truth she was the rot of a dead animal that she had just killed to satisfy her gaming.
It was a cruel game and what was more cruel, was a knowing WHY he didn’t like you-but the simple answer was. He didn’t like himself or others. Misery had crept into open wounds and lay dormant-feeding bitter signs of diseased flesh. To hope for enlightenment from a being like this was non-existent.
The girls of Alysa were beautiful, blossoming. Their Mother took the best care. The father may have left as the husband, but why leave as the father to the children? It was his love of particpating that had faded. The young women look out of their window each night. There was no explanation. There was no reason to dismiss them. They lived within their circle of life-and that must stay pure. And, so it did.
Only the perfect Begbellions, born of Begbelly, with their greedy hands would not be tossed aside. They were the ones with goodness, we all must be reminded of this. With the chant of the bulbous Chegly Begbelly, the lies prevailed. She had become the Grand Dame. And, true as ever, she repeated the lies that spilled from her blackened teeth and breath of worm. She was the purest and thus her children were perfect. In her image, all was true. DePukly craved this depravity. This was his calling and he had met the one who lied as much as the liar. All hail the grand liar, distorted with hate and painful sores, Chegly Begbelly.
The Robarians, were the ones who received the pain strewn about from her massive body and shriveled organs. She gave nothing good. She turned all truth into her truth-lies. And, reminded all, that what she said was the way the earth should live. Oh, how the people of Fet Flawber yearned for the day when Begbelly the pig of the castle would finally get all that she wanted and drown in the pulp of rot.
And, along with her, the Begbellions, crawling on their bellies would slither into the mud hole of her divinity.
For Begeblly, the key was that she was the stranger to DePukly. He could be whoever he wanted to be. Nothing had gone before and nothing existed now, but hate. He could buy and pretend to be something that he was not. She could be the scavenger of the earth and rise to new levels of possession and status. But, like a ghost of changing images in a mirror, no one would know who he truly was. And, soon, no one would care.
For, the outsider would end up in despair in her mucous and she would turn life into a river of puss.
Where are the slugs?

posted by Susan at 10:21 PM

 
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posted by Susan at 1:00 AM

 
The Goddess was created some time ago, by Sopora. She evolves daily and is embellished with stones and beads, silk and lace, parts of the earth and the heart. She embodies the woman of your inner being. She is femininity. She is the Circle of Life, The Long Life. Given to friends and family, she brings peace and joy.
posted by Susan at 10:39 PM

 
The Goddess

posted by Susan at 10:24 PM

 
The Goddess
Lavenderia and Milva would like you to hold "The Goddess," by Sopora in your hand.
posted by Susan at 10:15 PM

 
Page Six, Cindy Adams. I do love her!
SPEAKING of politics, a pal greeted New York state's chief exec George Pataki affectionately with: "You look familiar." Said our great Gov: "I used to be mayor of Peekskill, and it's been downhill ever since."
Sweet, quiet Peekskill. I long for you!
Lake Oscawana
Just for a moment in time!
posted by Susan at 10:06 PM

 
Sopora's Goddess
Standing silent now
The Goddess sips her sweet tea
Quiet soft smiles appear
posted by Susan at 9:53 PM

 
Sopora’s “The Goddess”
Visit Sopora's Goddess
to take a look at “The Goddess” doll, waiting for you!
Sopora was very aware that time spent with the sisters, Lavenderia and Milva presented her with rich and interesting thoughts. The ways of their land and the fact that they were the keeper of "The Long Life" was very important to Sopora. She believed in the Circle of Life, of women being strong and important, caring and loving. “The Goddess” at Sopora's Goddess can be seen with her small, sensitive face and made larger with a click of your wand. Approximately seven inches tall. All handmade. Pretty twine will be enclosed to help you display her.
She is a small wishing and sharing doll, which Sopora has created and presentes, to her friends. They are kept in their homes for constant companionship. As you brew your mystical, herbal tea and sip it alone or with friends, “The Goddess” at Sopora's Goddess awaits for you!
She can rest or hang on a wall nearby. Designed with a Hopi Indian influence and thoughts of a womanly, divine God, they are created with memories of the KIVA, the meeting places. “The Goddess” at Sopora's Goddess will be resting here. Take a peek! She is in EKIVA, our meeting place. The Kiva built below the ground, iis in our village, for our special sharing.
Please read below if you are interested in obtaining this grand, handmade treasured doll for yourself or a friend. These are completely handmade from natural earthly sands and shells, wood, and minerals and found objects. She is mystical. No two will be alike. This will be for you and you alone. Please email Mallistar@aol.com with your wishes and take a look at the picture of the GODDESS at Sopora's Goddess and order now, so you can see one for yourself.
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Thank you,
Sopora
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posted by Susan at 11:51 PM

 
Lavenderia & Milva’s Goodness

As Lavenderia & Milva traveled the land they would spread good humor and sweetness to all. Anyone who tried to follow their tracks would have a cloud of dust kicked up in the winds that followed them. Billowing, the clouds would conceal all. Begbelly hated that she could not control the old ladies. No grace for Begbelly, as she hunched over crawling with venom as Lavenderia and Milva would pass by-and never would she see them. Tossed aside in a cloud of smoke-she’d fall to the ground in the muck, her pores covered with fat; she would roll screeching obscenities for all to hear. She dragged her shroud close to her body, oozing a spectacle of disbelief to all around her. Her sores leeched and her tongue grew foul with odor as she continued to react and act like vermin. She picked her body up and crawled up the carriage into the inner sanctums of her coach and shrieked at the driver to move on. To the castle she would plunder seeking the relief of her tower. Better to be in her guarded castle, preparing herself with schemes to find and hunt down Lavenderia and Milva.
Years ago, Lavenderia and Milva’s family had found the land that they now lived on. The forests and mountains separated them from Lord Fet Flawber DePukly and the hideous Begbelly. The groves and forests presented some with a place to escape. You had to be strong to get to the old land. You had to forage and twist and find the path to peace. It was a sanctuary far away and the path was not always clear. Only some knew of the existence. It was an important place, where peace and harmony existed, under the guidance of the mystical sisters. They were the keeper